spring
2020
university of nebraska press newsletter
in this issue: Behind the Book: The Wax Pack. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Why I Write: Sue William Silverman. . . . . . . . . . 5
Behind the Book by Brad Balukjian, author of The Wax Pack: On the Open Road in Search of Baseball's Afterlife and Rob Taylor, UNP Senior Acquisitions Editor, Sports
Director’s View. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Four Unl Journalism Students Record Unp Audiobooks. . . . . . . 10 A Generalist's Perspective. . . . . . 12
Bra d Ba lu k j i an: I often joke that I chose the two professions that require the most training and education with the least financial reward: scientist and writer. Science and
Journals News. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
journalism have a lot more in common
Awards and Publicity Highlights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
than most people realize. Both begin with the investigator posing some big
List of Supporters . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
overarching question, followed by coming up with a hypothesis, doing ex-
Become a Friend of UNP. . . . . . . . 36
tensive field work to test that hypoth-
People at UNP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
esis, and then analyzing the data to ar-
ETC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
rive at some grand conclusion. I didn’t know it at the time, but my seven years spent toiling on a PhD documenting new species of Tahitian insects would serve me well on my seven-week, 11,341-mile road trip across America to track down the fourteen players in a photo courte s y of au thor
single pack of baseball cards from 1986.